What Fixed Time Domain Means: When You Step Out to Take a Leak, the Whole Country Knows

No one had expected things to develop to this point.

Because of one stunt by Ye Zhangjian, the already overbearing Rand Lord received an enthusiastic welcome from Imperial citizens—the latter had already been affected by the panic over the supposed social invasion, and with the Berserk Potion and Rand Lord's own insulting remarks thrown in, it directly escalated into a physical conflict.

Although the Empire valued martial prowess, most civilians were only ordinary Gamma-rank (3). Seeing their employer under siege, the two bodyguards had no choice but to disregard the fact that this was the Empire. For the sake of their professional reputations, they gritted their teeth and stepped in, attempting to suppress and contain the enraged Imperial citizens.

One of the two bodyguards was a warrior, the other a mage. Both were considered top-tier experts in Valkyrie Fortress.

Coritosen Yanov, a fighter of the Path of Destruction, was a snakefolk. He was slim and tall, with a hunched back and two recurved blades at his waist. His presence was steady, his gaze sinister; clearly, he was the sort of ruthless man who had clawed his way out of piles of corpses.

In fact, he was also a mercenary who had risen to prominence in recent years. Ten years ago, while still Delta-rank, Coritosen had joined his corps in the Galaxy Eye Campaign, a battle hailed as a meat grinder.

He fought from beginning to end and personally witnessed Galaxy Eye's liberation. He was a true hardcase.

If one sentence had to sum up just how formidable he was, it would be this: after ten years in a hellish battlefield like a meat grinder, he had never once been injured.

Fortress sieges, orbital assaults, ambushes, the asteroid battle on the second line of defense, excavating the planetary core—every one of